8500 cpu card

[Christopher]

Hey folks, I decided last night/early morning to grab the parts of my 8500 since my brother thought it was cool the kick the case.

Anyways, I fired it up and it booted, but the thing I found odd was, the video is showing up as 553MHz G3. It's actually a 500MHz G3. What's going on?

 

[trag]

It could be a couple of things. A 500 MHz G3 has a bus multiplier of 10X available. So it is possible that you have the Bus Speed set to 55.3 MHz and the multiplier set to 10X and the CPU is actually running at the reported speed.

It is also possible that the utility you used to report the speed is reporting it wrongly. This is not uncommon. Some of the utilities are better at accurately detecting CPU speeds than others.

Try downloading a copy of NewerTech's Gauges package, if you can find it. The CPU speed function (Clockometer) is generally very accurate.

 

[Christopher]

It is also possible that the utility you used to report the speed is reporting it wrongly. This is not uncommon. Some of the utilities are better at accurately detecting CPU speeds than others.

Apple System Profiler under OS 9.1.

I wouldn't doubt it, but i noticed it was the hottest part out of the whole thing. I might had do with it just having the motherboard sitting on carpet, I dunno.